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Consumer Criteria for Value-Based Insurance Designs

The California Health Benefit Exchange (Covered California) may allow Qualified Health Plans to vary from the standard benefits package that will be offered all enrollees, through value-based insurance design (VBID) options. VBID incorporates financial incentives into health insurance cost-sharing approaches to encourage healthy outcomes. Consumers Union has developed a set of criteria that Covered California and other Exchanges should use to evaluate whether the proposals are in the best interest of consumers.

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